In the waning days of the 2024 campaign, there’s a lot of buzz about the liberal celebrities who are joining Vice President Kamala Harris at her Democratic rallies. Thanks to the outsized role that “the media” — that’s the news media, entertainment media, and social media — play in our national discourse, the vacuous and vulgar pronouncements of left-wing celebrities are widely promoted as if they were actually important contributions to the political dialogue.
For the last eight years, both onscreen and online, America’s celebrities have focused their venomous and vile tirades against GOP nominee and former President Donald Trump. These attention-getting screeds are widely shared on social media and replayed on news programs, almost as an in-kind contribution to Trump’s Democratic opponents.
They can be quite nasty. “The Klan won last night,” screenwriter Aaron…
